Helladius of Auxerre
French bishop
Feast: 8 May (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Helladius of Auxerre (died 387) was the bishop of Auxerre for thirty years from 357 until his death. St. Amator (died 418) was converted to Christianity, ordained a deacon and tonsured by Helladius, which provides the earliest example of ecclesiastical tonsure mentioned in the religious history of France.
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The miracles
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Why that counted as sanctity
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- Wikidata Q518176 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Helladius of Auxerre (CC BY-SA)
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